Category Archives: In the Community


Drug Awareness Resistance Education graduation held at Joseph Davies School; parents and staff told drug overdoses and fatalities are dropping; Sheriff tells 5th-graders their choices will affect the rest of their lives


Drug overdoses and fatalities in St. Bernard Parish dropped roughly 50 percent in the past two years, sheriff’s officials told parents, teachers and students at Joseph Davies School at the… Continue Reading »»


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National Drug Take-Back Day is Sat., April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p. m; Residents can turn in expired or unwanted prescription drugs at Walgreens at Paris Road, where narcotics agents will dispose of them


National Drug Take-Back Day is on Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the continuation of an event which, locally, St. Bernard Parish’s Sheriff’s Office began in 2009, Sheriff… Continue Reading »»


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Relay for Life event for cancer research to be held overnight April 6-7 in Torres Park, Chalmette; Sheriff Pohlmann and others took part in fund-raiser for one team in memory of a St. Bernard cancer victim


Relay For Life is the main volunteer-driven fundraising event of the American Cancer Society in which about 4 million Americans take part in some 5,000 communities each year. In St.… Continue Reading »»


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